High School Band

 

Mr. Brad Bonebrake


Director of Bands


Brad Bonebrake earned his Bachelor of Music Degree with teacher certification from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1995.  He earned his Master of Music in Trumpet Performance degree from Arizona State University in 1998.  In addition to his administrative duties for the Summit Band, as Director of Bands, Mr. Bonebrake’s direct rehearsal responsibilities include that of Summit Marching Band and Wind Symphony.  Mr. Bonebrake also serves as assistant director for the Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band and co-director of the Jazz Ensembles.


Prior to his position at Summit High School, Mr. Bonebrake held teaching positions at Fossil Ridge High School in Keller, Texas, and Beck Intermediate School in Trophy Club, Texas.  In addition to his public education teaching positions and freelance trumpet performances, Mr. Bonebrake has maintained a small studio of private trumpet students from several Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex campuses and has been a member of the Legend Brass Quintet for the past nine years.  While attending Arizona State University, Mr. Bonebrake served as a graduate teaching assistant for Regent’s Professor David Hickman.  In addition to his private studio and brass techniques course responsibilities, Mr. Bonebrake performed as a member of the Arizona State University Teaching Assistant Brass Quintet, as a member of the Pinnacle Brass Quintet, and as a substitute trumpet player for the Phoenix Symphony.  During his two years in Tempe, Mr. Bonebrake also served as principal trumpet of the International Exchange Symphony Orchestra in Skopje, Macedonia.


Mr. Bonebrake and his wife, Stephanie, live in Mansfield and have a beautiful daughter, Reagan.

Mr. Chris Kanicki


Associate Director of Bands


Chris Kanicki grew up outside of Boston, Massachusetts and moved to Texas in the 6th grade. He graduated from Round Rock High School where his experiences as a two year Drum Major, and support from his band director, Ed Stein, convinced him to pursue a career in music. He then traveled to Miami, Florida where he received a Bachelor of Music Degree, cum laude, in music education from the University of Miami. While there, he studied saxophone with Dale Underwood, former saxophone soloist for the United States Navy Band in Washington, D.C. Mr. Kanicki had the privilege of being lead alto in the Symphonic Winds for his first three years, and later performed with the Wind Ensemble under the direction of Gary Green. He was also a three year member and Drum Major for the “Band of the Hour” Marching Band.


Upon graduation, Mr. Kanicki moved to Alice, Texas to become an Assistant Director for Alice ISD. While at Alice, both his bands at William Adams Middle School and Alice High School earned consecutive Sweepstakes awards every year in Concert and Sight-Reading. He served as a field staff member for the marching band in 2007, before becoming the Co-Marching Band Director in 2009. Both years, the marching band competed at the 4A State Marching Contest. In 2010, Mr. Kanicki assumed the role of Head Marching Band Director. The marching band won several awards that year, including being named Grand Champion of the Lakeshore Marching Festival. Mr. Kanicki also taught saxophone lessons 6-12 and has had several successful students make the District, Region, Area, and All-State bands.


This is Mr. Kanicki’s first year at Summit High School. His responsibilities include directing the Symphonic Band and the Wind Ensemble, as well as assisting the Wind Symphony and Marching Band.

Nicki Neugent


Colorguard Instructor


Nicki Neugent grew up in the suburbs of Detroit Michigan surrounded by a musical family.  At the age of nine, her family moved to Abilene, Texas, so her father could accept a position as the Associate Director of the 500+ member Cooper High School Band.  In 1988, they moved to Bedford, Texas, as her father was named the Head Director at LD Bell High School.  While at LD Bell, under her father’s direction, Mrs. Neugent was a member of the cologuard, a two-year Drum Major and a three-year member.  In the spring of 1994, Nicki was selected, through a national audition process, as one of two high school students to be named a Yamaha Young Performing Artisit.


Upon graduation, she attended the University of North Texas to continue studying flute with Mary Karen Clardy.  In 1998, she graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Music Performance with a concentration in flute.  While at UNT, she was a four-year member of the Wind Symphony under the direction of Eugene Corporon and a three-year member of the Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Anshel Brusilow.  As a member of the UNT Wind Symphony, Nicki was part of ten recording sessions for the Klavier label.  She also traveled throughout the United States on concert tours with the Grammy award winning ensemble.


During college, she performed in master classes with world-renowned flutists James Galway, Julius Baker and Ransom Wilson.  Nicki was also a two-year member of the Green Brigade marching band and was President of the UNT chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota.  Her honors and awards included the George Morey flute scholarship and she was named as both the Outstanding Freshman and Sophomore for the College of Music.


After graduation, Nicki continued teaching private flute lessons throughout North and East Texas, and became an active flute clinician and adjudicator, as well as Assistant Colorguard Director at Creekview High School.  In 2003, she became the Colorguard Instructor at Creekview where her program grew from 17 to 36 members.  While at Creekview, she began a successful Winterguard program, and in only three years, the guard was promoted from Regional A to Scholastic A class.  In 2005, they were awarded the Scholastic AAA class Championship.  Mrs. Neugent is currently the Colorguard Instructor at Summit High School as well as a private flute instructor in the North Texas area.  She resides in Mansfield with her husband Nathaniel, who is the Director of Bands a Howard Middle School.  They have an adorable son named Connor.

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Dr. Shawn Hart


Associate Director of Bands


Shawn Hart is currently Associate Director of Bands/Percussion Co-Coordinator for Mansfield Summit High School in Arlington, Texas.  He received his Bachelor of Music Education Degree from Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and his Master of Music in Percussion Performance from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio.  He received is Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas.


Along with UNT professors, Mark Ford and Christopher Deane, Dr. Hart helped in the world premier of Ford’s “Afta Stuba!” at the Percussive Arts Society’s 2000 Convention in Nashville, Tennessee.  While at UNT, Dr. Hart performed with the Grammy nominated North Texas Wind Symphony on several of its Klavier label CD’s, including “Deja View”, “Soundscapes”, “Sojoums”, “Convergence” and “WASBE Live!”.  He was a featured percussion soloist for two percussion concertos on these disks, namely Michael Colgrass’ Deja Vu and David Gillingham’s Concerto for Four Percussion.  He can also be heard on several volumes of the “Teaching Music Through Performance in Band” series, recorded by the UNT Wind Symphony, under the baton of Eugene Migliaro Corporon.  Dr. Hart has also performed with the UNT Symphony Orchestra, Las Colinas Symphony and Garland Symphony.


Dr. Hart and his wife Shilloy currently reside in Arlington.

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